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Introduction Waves Vocal Bender is a quick and simple tool for manipulating vocals. It lets you alter the pitch and formants of monophonic voice tracks with the option of modulating the controls. All of this is done in real time, which means that you can make creative vocal effects as quickly as you can move your fingers.
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Using Vocal Bender Interface Flatten Control Pitch Shifter Link the Pitch and Formant Controls Formant Shifter WaveSystem Toolbar Wet/Dry Mix Pitch and Formant Fine Tune Select Modulator Section Vocal Bender / User Guide...
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Flatten forces the entire vocal to the selected pitch. This makes singing monotonic, creating a robot- like effect. This effect can be used in conjunction with pitch modulation to create musical sequences. Range: C2 to B3 Vocal Bender / User Guide...
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Turn the small knob between the Pitch Shift and Formant Shift controls to adjust both controls together while maintaining any offset. Range is limited by the highest and lowest positions of the Pitch and Formant controls. Wet/Dry mix at the output of the plugin. Range: 0% (dry) to 100% (wet) Vocal Bender / User Guide...
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Modulating the Controls Vocal Bender lets you create modulations that can be applied to controls in the plugin. Assigning Modulators to Controls You can assign any modulator to the Pitch, Formant, and Mix controls, and to the controls of the modulators themselves. This provides complete flexibility when manipulating a vocal performance.
Organic modulators use the input signal itself to create a modulation. AM, or Amplitude, lets you use the amplitude envelope of the Voice signal to manipulate other controls of the plugin. PT, or Pitch, extracts the pitch detection from the voice. Vocal Bender / User Guide...
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Browse (Folder icon) opens a library of factory LFO shapes or sequencer patterns. Click on a shape to replace the one you are currently using. Scroll across the panel to reveal more shape options. To undo, use the arrows on left side of the WaveSystem toolbar, not the host “undo.” Vocal Bender / User Guide...
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PC: C:\Users\Public\Waves Audio\Plug-in Settings\ Delete (Trash icon) removes the selected user shape from the shape library. Click the Trash icon, then click on the user shape you wish to delete. You cannot delete factory shapes. Vocal Bender / User Guide...
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High settings smooth the overall modulation curve, and in some settings may result in very low energy. Range: 1 to 1000 EVEL The overall level of the modulator. When the Level of a modulator is set to 0, no modulation takes place. Range: 0 to 1 Vocal Bender / User Guide...
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The time it takes the modulator to fall back to minimum once an attenuation is detected. Range: 0.1 ms to 1000 ms EVEL The overall level of the modulator. When this is set to 0, no modulation takes place. Range: 0 to +2 Vocal Bender / User Guide...
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Applies a steady offset to the overall modulation curve. It lets you set a “reference note” about which pitch modulates. Range: -1 to 1 EVEL he overall level of the modulator. When Level is set to 0, no modulation takes place Sets t Range: 0 to +2 Vocal Bender / User Guide...